X-Ray Binary Systems: A Cauldron of Physical Processes

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Mar 2001

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Astrophysics and Space Science, v. 276, Issue 1, p. 67-80 (2001).

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Galactic X-ray emitters have been described by Giovannelli and Sabau-Graziati (1993). We would address the bulk of this paper on High Mass X-Ray Binaries (HMXBs) and particularly in demonstrating the importance of these systems as powerful laboratories to test the properties of high-energy physical processes through the multi-frequency studies of their behavior. Interactions between the two components of those systems originate processes that manifest themselves along a large part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Therefore it is possible to study indirectly high-energy phenomena through the analysis of low-energy phenomena with enormous advantages since the latter can be mainly studied via ground-based experiments, meanwhile the former can be studied only by mean of space-based experiments, at least up to energies of order 100 GeV. Moreover, since HMXBs are galactic, their emissions are the highest measurable; this renders such systems the most powerful laboratories to test theories on collapsed objects, which can be scaled to extra-galactic distances and dimensions. This fact suggests that HMXBs can be in general useful targets even for small satellites, and in particular, in the X-ray energy range, very suitable targets for experiments like SIXE (Spanish Italian X-ray Experiment) to be launched in small satellites such as the Spanish MINISAT-02.

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